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The real USS Swordfish was lost with all hands in the waters around Okinawa. The real U-429 was transferred to the Italian Navy (where it was dubbed the S 4), then served as a training boat for the German Navy following Italy's surrender.See more »

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Factual errors: The hatch on the U-Boot is oval with a wing-nut dogging lever. U-Boot bulkhead hatches were circular with a wheel to operate the dogging mechanism.See more »

I just rented this film (on DVD) because I liked the cast. In the case
of William H Macy, I just trust his choice in scripts. Whatever he
chooses to play, should I choose to watch. We seem to have the same
taste somehow. So I hoped it would work again with this film.

I'm not interested in submarines, I'm not eager to watch films set in
any war, I'm not even particularly fond of Til Schweiger, our German
heartthrob, although Thomas Kretschmann is definitely an interesting
actor. One to watch, believe me. But still this film fascinated me. So
trusting Macy's choice worked once again.

The story had a couple of twists which I always like, dialogue in two
languages (one third German, two thirds English) which is even better,
and quite well developed (main) characters. All this makes a good film,
not brilliant, but good. Good craftsmanship. I liked the German
actors's "natural" accents, thankfully they were not forced to have
worse accents than they normally have. And I liked in particular that
at least in the leading roles it were Germans the filmmakers hired and
not some Swedes, Americans or Britons replacing them like in other
films like Ronin (Swede= Stellan Skarsgard) or Die Hard (Briton= Alan
Rickman).

So, I think I can recommend this film, even to people outside the
probable target group of young men. This film is not so much about war
and fighting, but about the possibility of enemies working together and
even becoming friends if you get the chance to get to know each other
better and realizing, we are all humans after all.

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